User:Intersets/Abstract

Abstract
Prefixes used to indicate direction, movement, position, temporal relation, etc.

Angles
Prefixes used to indicate angle: acute/oblique, straight/curved, flat/erect

Composition
Prefixes used to indicate joining/un-joining, whole/part.

Influences
Prefixes used to indicate reciprocal vs one-way relationships, controlling/resulting

Normality
Prefixes used to indicate normal/abnormal, ordinary/extraordinary, regular/irregular

Rates
Prefixes used to indicate rate, such as fast/slow, increase/decrease, changing/unchanging.

Similarity
Prefixes used to indicate same/different, variety/uniformity

Size
Prefixes used to indicate size (big/small), width (wide/thin), height (tall/short), depth (deep/shallow).

Social facts
''Social facts in the Durkheimian sense: ideas, norms, values, etc that transcend the individual. Includes social institutions, social ranks, political movements, and mythological concepts. Unlike the category "Human acivities", which is verb-oriented, this category is noun-oriented.''
 * Political and social movements: Social movements (e.g. the LGBTQ+ community), political movements (e.g. anarchism), and political philosophies (e.g. anarchy).
 * Social institutions: Prefixes for sociocultural institutions, interpreted broadly. Can refer to the groups in an institution, the institution itself, or a generalized conception of the institution.
 * Religion & mythology: Prefixes for concepts and entities from religion and mythology.

Spatial
''Prefixes used to indicate spatial location, position, and/or direction. Such as: left/right, up/down, in/out, inside/outside, over/under.''

Temporal
''Prefixes used to indicate a temporal location or relationship, e.g. new/old, past/present/future, first/last, preceding/following. Note: fast/slow is in Rates.''

Correctness
Prefixes used to indicate true/false, artificial/genuine.

Numbers
''Cardinal (1, 2, 3), ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd), multiples (twofold, threefold) numbers and factors (e.g. SI prefixes). Alt-Sort: the numbers.''

Parity
''Whether a number is even or odd. Altsort: the modulo (remainder), 0 for even, 1 for odd. Interestingly there do not appear to be prefixes for odd quantities other than to negate these (e.g. a'pari-).

Quantity
Prefixes used for quantity, such as much/little, more/less, more than/less than.

Colours, shapes, and textures
''Prefixes used for specific colours, shapes, textures, and sounds. These are forms of sensory information that have a stronger psychocultural element to them than those in the category "Physical properties". For example, while there are wavelengths that correspond to certain colours, some colours (e.g. magenta) do not have associated wavelengths as they are created neuropsychologically. The sensory processes of colour vision, haptic information, etc is under Body Processes.''

Shapes
''Prefixes used to describe various geometric shapes. Primarily used for naming organisms.''
 * Boxy: Prefixes for shapes that are boxy - like a cube, square, prism, rectangle, rhombus, etc.
 * Conical: Prefixes for shapes that are roughly conical, or bowl-shaped.
 * Cross: Prefixes for shapes like a cross or X; linear with a cross-beam.
 * Curly: Prefixes for shapes that are spirals, twisted, coiled, helical, etc.
 * Filiform: Prefixes that are like a hair or string.
 * Round: Prefixes for shapes that are like spheres, circles, disks, rings, etc.
 * Spiky: Prefixes for shapes that star-like or otherwise spiky.
 * Cylindrical: Prefixes for shapes that are cylindrical, tubular, rod-like, or phallic.
 * Yonic: Prefixes for shapes that have an elliptic shape, but have tapering on the ends (e.g. fusiform), so are not properly Round.
 * Branching: Prefixes for shapes that have a branching structure, like a feather or leaf.
 * Bumpy: Prefixes for shapes that have rounded bumps rather than sharp spikes (see: Spiky).

Sounds
Prefixes for specific sounds (e.g. a thud), rather than the concept of sound, acoustics, or the auditory sensory system.

Textures
Prefixes for textures.